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Investigation: Peg Race

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore competition by participating in a peg race. In this pattern creation lesson, students utilize an egg timer and pegs or colored cubes to create patterns quickly while competing with fellow classmates to finish first....
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Hand washing Laboratory Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are exposed to the benefits of many antimicrobial soaps to prevent infections. In the food-service industry, studies indicate that inadequate hand washing and cross-contamination is responsible
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Integrated Social Studies Lesson and Science Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the Civil War and the fact that many soldiers died during the war as a result of sickness. They discuss germs and participate in an activity that shows them how germs are spread and how they can be stopped from...
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Clothes on the Line

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Rock Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the processes involved in the rock cycle. In this earth science lesson, students identify the different kinds of rocks. They complete a worksheet during the activity.
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Dimmer and Dimmer and Dimmer and Dimmer

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders model rheostats to see how they work.
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Hot Off the Grill

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read an article about humans getting sick from eating improperly cooked meat. In groups, they cook a hamburger patty and when they believe it is done, they check the temperature with thermometers. They record their temperatures...
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Nutrition Unit

For Teachers K
Students engage in a variety of activities designed to help them understand about the importance of good nutrition and eating healthy foods. The activities include playing food bingo, making a collage, designing posters, etc.
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A Common African Food: Fou-Fou

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify fou-fou as a common dish from Africa, and sample fou-fou using a traditional African form of eating.
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Peace and Virtue

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners discuss the consequences of improper actions as well as the sense of accomplishment that comes from doing the right thing and helping others. Students divide into two teams and play a game related to the story they...
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Healthy Heart

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders experiment with their pulse rate. They investigate a beef heart and locate the route of blood flow and the chambers and discuss the function of each chamber. They discuss the circulatory system and compare theirs to the...
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Icky, Sticky!!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an emerging literacy lesson that focuses on the skill of phonemic awareness. The phoneme of choice is the letter "i". Students need to recognize the letter in correlation to its sound.
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Rivers for the Common Good

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore what effects improper waste disposal and water pollution have on the water cycle. They explore how philanthropic acts can help protect the water cycle and keep our water and planet clean.
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Contrast- Printmaking- The Fin Art of Science

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the art of printmaking. They discuss relief prints and the art of fish printing (Gyotaku). They view examples of the artwork of Gyotaku and also observe the various characteristics of different species of fish. Finally...
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Southeast Asian Food and Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners become familiar with some of the food of Southeast Asia. The explore various examples of how culture has been shaped through the influence of food within Southeast Asia.
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Funny Putty

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Young scholars study that colloids are mixtures which display the properties of more than one of these states.
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It's Icky Sticky

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pseudo words...
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An Apple a Day

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore how to make careful observations and gain valuable practice in drawing what they observe. They stimulate questions about the changes occurring in the apple. Students have an opportunity to ask questions that can...
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Water Quality Monitoring

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students comprehend the four parameters of water quality. They perform tests for salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and clarity or turbidity. Students comprehend why scientists and environmental managers monitor water uality and aquatic...
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Life at the Pond

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the bugs collected from the pond. In this biology instructional activity, students observe the living and nonliving organisms in the pond environment. They write a reflection about why nature is important and must be...
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore vocabulary by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two words lesson, students read the book The Biggest Pumpkin Ever and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocabulary...
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It's All in the Wrist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct experiments with balloons, pennies, marbles and cups to help them understand the concept of centrifugal force or Newton's Law of Motion.
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2-D Shape Patten Placemats

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify and form a pattern out of 2-D shapes, then transfer this pattern into creating placemats.
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Heat of Vaporization of Liquid Nitrogen

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students determine the heat energy needed to vaporize (boil) one gram of liquid nitrogen.

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